This critical reading of Hilando fino: Voces femeninas en La Violencia (Maria Victoria Uribe) wonders about the role of testimonial discourse within the construction of the historical narrative as a modern nation s artefact. By posing a conversation between the book and different notions of narration, mediation, translation, memory and experience, pretends to question Colombian national narrative s plot and plotting, all of which has bases on explorations and revisions of intellectual debates on testimonial discourse. The question exposed in the title is the beginning of the study and revision of certain ways in which the testimonial discourse and its relation with historical and literary disciplines have been tackled, national narrative s statist nature, national project s exclusive character and unfortunate homogenization -that is commonly present in some of the discourses that vindicate vital experiences previously relegated by traditional historiography- are treated, as well. Constantly, the text boards three states of «difference»: contextual, textual and sexual difference. Towards this three stages of the category of difference -fed by its linking with specificity- this work pretends to weave the threads that may provide an account of the possibility of resisting the brutality of the statist nations that supports the project of the nation.